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Monthly Archives: October 2013

This week I returned from a big weekend on the Gold Coast at the Australian Society of Travel Writers AGM and Travel Journalism Awards for Excellence. It was my first time attending the event after being substantiated as an associate member just a few months ago and I’m happy to announce that my cover story…

On the St James entrance to Hyde Park North in Central Sydney hang 22 gigantic (2.8m x 1.78m) photographic prints. They’re the finalists selected by a panel of judges from over 1300 entries into the Sydney Life Photographic Prize. Each year this competition celebrates “the Sydney that lies beneath the iconic images” that usually define…

“When I used to sell my cocoa to other companies — as a woman — I was cheated most of the time because I didn’t know how much a bag of cocoa weighed,” Afia confides. She’s a 58-year-old mother-of-six and a cocoa farmer who works her family plot on a tropical hillside in Ghana’s Ashanti…

Picture this: your home is burning – there’s no people or pets in danger – but only a few short minutes stand between all your earthly possessions and total oblivion. You have enough time to save only the most cherished and irreplaceable objects in your life and must choose in an instant. What would you…